CORHIO Archives

The Boulder County Business Report published an article on November, 11, 2011 regarding the costs that physician practices face if they want to be part of a health information exchange or implement an electronic medical record system in order to achieve meaningful use. If physicians want to particpate in CORHIO (the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization) ...

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Nearly 100 health care and community leaders gathered at Boulder Community Hospital on September 27, 2011 to celebrate the official launch of health information exchange in Boulder County. By connecting the clinical information technology systems of both Alpine Urology and Boulder Community Hospital, patient data is now being used for clinical decision-making and patient care. In April, ...

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Physicians' & Patient Perspective of CORHIO Health Information Exchange

In this video, three physicians discuss the importance of participating in the newly launched CORHIO health information exchange in central and eastern Colorado. Also included is the story of a Grand Junction resident who compares and contrasts her family's recent experience dealing with a serious illness that included receiving health care locally in Grand Junction, ...

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Dr. Ferguson: Improving Care for Hospice Patients with Health Information Exchange

In this video, Dr. Michele Ferguson, Medical Director at HospiceCare of Boulder & Broomfield Counties, discusses the challenges of gathering clinical information for new hospice patients. Dr. Ferguson also discusses the benefits of health information exchange (HIE) for hospice care providers and their patients. HospiceCare is joining the CORHIO HIE.

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Boulder County Organizations Sign Agreements with Colorado RHIO's HIE Apr 07, 2011 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Five Boulder County health care organizations have signed agreements to share patient data through the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization's Health Information Exchange, CORHIO officials announced. According to a release, the organizations include Alpine Urology, Boulder ...

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A Functional Demo of HIE for Physicians & Communities in Colorado

This video is a short introduction to Health Information Exchange (HIE) and demonstration of the community health record. The demo features a fictitious scenario involving a 77 year-old female patient who is switching primary care providers. Her new physician uses the community health record portal to access her medical history including recent tests, medications and ...

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Introduction to "health information exchanges"

Medicine has come a long way in the past few decades. Today's doctors and nurses have some amazing tools at their disposal: the latest high tech equipment, modern pharmaceuticals and procedures. Yet, in many cases the most important tool a medical professional needs is INFORMATION. Information about you, the patient. What are your allergies? Lab results? ...

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Medicine has come a long way in the past few decades, today's doctors and nurses have some amazing tools at their disposal — the latest high-tech equipment and modern pharmaceuticals. But, the most important tool a medical professional needs is information — information about you the patient. What are your allergies? Recent lab results? Past procedures? ...

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Part 1 of the opening session of the Colorado Health IT & "Health Information Exchange" Summit. Phyllis Albritton, Executive Director of CORHIO kicks off the day with a brief introduction to health information exchange and introduces Joan Henneberry, Executive Director, State of Colorado, Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF). In part 2 of the opening ...

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CORHIO is a nonprofit, public-private partnership that is improving health care quality for all Coloradans through cost effective and secure implementation of health information exchange (HIE).  CORHIO is designated by the State of Colorado to facilitate HIE. CORHIO works closely with and among communities across Colorado to develop and implement secure systems and processes for sharing clinical ...

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